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 388 ROGERS home, and made him prebendary and divinity reader of St. Paul's. On the Sunday after the triumphal entry of Queen Mary into London, in August, 1553, Rogers preached a sermon at St. Paul's cross, in which he exhorted the peo- ple to adhere to the doctrine taught in King Edward's days, and to resist the forms and dogmas of Catholicism. He was summoned before the privy council for this, but defended himself ably, and was released. On Aug. 18, however, he was ordered to remain a prisoner in his own house, and at the end of six months was removed to Newgate. He was tried in January, 1555, before Gardiner, bishop of Win- chester, and condemned to be burned. He was the author of several theological works. ROGERS, John, an American sculptor, born in Salern, Mass., Oct. 30, 1829. He was for two years a merchant's clerk in Boston, and after a voyage to Spain for his health entered in 1848 a machine shop in Manchester, N. H., where he remained seven years. In 1856 lie took charge of a railroad machine shop in Hannibal, Mo., in 1857 visited Paris and Rome, and then became a draughtsman in Chicago. He there modelled a group called " The Checker Play- ers," and another called "The Slave Auction," exhibited in New York in 1860. Opening a studio in New York, he became famous for small groups illustrating the civil war and com- mon life, executed in a brownish gray composi- tion. Among the best known of these groups are: "The Picket Guard" (1861); "The Re- turned Volunteer," "The Wounded Scout," and " Union Refugees " (1864) ; " Taking the Oath," "The Charity Patient," and "Uncle Ned's School" (1866); "The Council of War" and "Courtship in Sleepy Hollow" (1868); "The Fugitive's Story" (1869); "Coming to the Parson" (1870); a series illustrating the story of Rip Van Winkle (1871); and "The Favored Scholar" (1872). He has more re- cently modelled some larger statues for garden and lawn decoration, executed in artificial stone, and has also made some anatomical studies of the horse, for the use of art students. ROGERS, Randolph, an American sculptor, born in the state of New York about 1825. In early manhood he spent several years in Rome studying his art. On his return home lie soon became known through his statue of "Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii," his "Boy and Dog," and other compositions. Return- ing to Rome, where he now resides (1875), he executed a statue of John Adams, now in Mt. Auburn cemetery. In 1858 he de- signed and modelled the bronze door for the capitol at Washington. The work, which is 17 ft. high and 9 ft. wide, is divided into eight panels, each of which represents in alto rilievo a scene in the life of Colum- bus. Between the panels and on the sides are 16 statuettes of the eminent contemporaries of Columbus. After this he was employed for several years in finishing the designs for the Washington monument at Richmond, begun by Crawford. Since the civil war he has designed and executed large memorial monu- ments for the states of Rhode Island and Mich- igan. The former, which was erected in Prov- idence in 1871, is 50 ft. high ; the crowning statue, " America," is 10 ft. high ; and on the angles of the pedestal are statues 7 ft. high representing the four branches of the service. The latter, erected in Detroit in 1873, is similar in design, but larger and more elaborate ; it is surmounted by a statue representing Mich- igan. Among Rogers's other works are a co- lossal bronze statue of Lincoln, unveiled in. Philadelphia in 1871, a statue for the Colt monument in Hartford entitled " The Angel of the Resurrection," and ideal statues of " Ruth " and " Isaac." ROGERS, Stntnel, an English poet, born at Newington Green, near London, July 30, 1763, died in London, Dec. 18, 1855. He was edu- cated by private tutors, and entered his father's banking house in his boyhood. In his 18th year he became a prose contributor to the " Gentleman's Magazine," and in 1786 published "An Ode to Superstition, with some other Poems," of which during the next four yeara only about 20 copies were sold. In 1792 he produced his " Pleasures of Memory," which at once gave him a place among the poets of England. His father at his death in 1793 left him an ample fortune, and he soon after retired from active participation in business, though retaining his interest as a partner. In 1798 appeared his " Epistle to a Friend, and other Poems;" and in 1803 he established himself in a house (No. 22) in St. James's place, which during the next half century enjoyed a wide celebrity as a resort of literary men and the receptacle of choice treasures of art. Rogers's " breakfasts," given in a shady apartment, be- came in time famous as a sort of social rally- ing point. His collection of pictures, books, vases, &c., was distinguished by its exquisite tnste, and realized after his death upward of 50,000, a sum considerably larger than the original cost. His "Voyage of Columbus" was first published in a new edition of his poems in 1812, and in 1813 his "Jacqueline" appeared in a volume with Byron's "Lara." In 1819 he published a didactic poem entitled " Human Life," and in 1822 " Italy," a collec- tion of pieces in blank verse and in prose. The remainder of his literary life was devoted to the publication of illustrated editions of his " Italy " and his " Poems," the designs for which were furnished by Prout, Turner, and Stothard, and were engraved by the first artists in England. He is said to have expended be- tween 10,000 and 15,000 in this underta- king. On the death of Wordsworth he was offered the laureateship, which, in considera- tion of his great age, he declined. He retained his physical vigor until near the close of his life. His chief personal blemish was a ten- dency to ill-natured satire and unreasonable antipathies. Of this and other traits some